Environment Act 1995

Contents

• The Environment Agency
• The Scottish Environment Protection Agency
• The National Park authorities

• required the Secretary of State to prepare a National air quality strategy, and provided for the establishment of Air quality management areas
• required the Secretary of State to prepare a National Waste Strategy, with power to impose obligations on producers in England & Wales.
• required SEPA to prepare a National waste strategy.
• Improved the current protection of hedgerows
• Introduced new provisions in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 dealing with contaminated land and abandoned mines
• Formalised the Sandford Principle